78R19255 JRD-D

Suspending limitations on conference committee

jurisdiction, S.B. No. 1000 (West/Goodman)







By:  Goodman                                          H.R. No. 1765


R E S O L U T I O N
	BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of 
Texas, 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, That House Rule 13, 
Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13, 
Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to 
resolve the differences on Senate Bill 1000, relating to a 
statistical or demographic analysis conducted by the Texas 
Legislative Council for a state agency and to information collected 
by the council in the course of performing the analysis, to consider 
and take action on the following matters:
	(1)  House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(2), is suspended to permit 
the committee to omit the section of the bill that adds Section 
2113.108, Government Code, which reads as follows:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 2113, Government Code, is 
amended by adding Section 2113.108 to read as follows:
	Sec. 2113.108.  CERTAIN STUDIES INVOLVING STATISTICAL OR 
DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS.  (a)  A state agency may not use appropriated 
money to contract with a consultant or other nongovernmental entity 
to perform or assist the agency in performing a statistical or 
demographic analysis of information collected by or for the agency 
in the course of conducting a study that the agency is required to 
conduct under state law unless the agency first contacts the Texas 
Legislative Council to determine whether the resources of the 
council are available to perform or assist the agency in performing 
that analysis.  For purposes of this section, performing a 
statistical or demographic analysis of information in the course of 
conducting a study includes designing the analysis and collecting 
the information required for purposes of the study.
	(b)  If the Texas Legislative Council determines that 
council resources are available to perform or assist the state 
agency in performing all or part of the statistical or demographic 
analysis, the agency must contract with the council to perform or 
assist the agency in performing that analysis to the extent that the 
council determines that council resources are available to the 
agency.
	Explanation:  It is necessary to omit the text to ensure that 
under the bill state agencies may, but are not required to, contract 
with the Texas Legislative Council to perform certain statistical 
or demographic analyses.
	(2)  House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(1), is suspended to permit 
the committee to alter text in proposed Section 323.020, Government 
Code, so that Section 323.020(b) reads as follows:
	(b)  At the request of a state agency, the council may 
determine whether and the extent to which council resources are 
available to contract or otherwise agree with the agency to perform 
a statistical or demographic analysis of information for the agency 
or to assist the agency in performing the analysis.  A reference in 
this section to performing an analysis includes assisting an agency 
to perform the analysis.
	Explanation:  It is necessary to alter the text to remove 
references to the omitted Section 2113.108 and to clarify that 
references to performing an analysis include references to 
assisting an agency to perform an analysis.